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Totally depends upon how much you'll use it. I don't run MEWPS but I have three pretty new diggers. One might sit in the shed most of the month but so long as I do one job with it that's the finance for the month covered. Yes it would sometimes be cheaper to hire (particularly the micro which I don't use much) but as soon as you start adding in the hassle factor of arranging hires and paying for delivery/collection (or worse, the hassle of collecting and returning it yourself to tricky to find sites) then owning on finance starts to look very attractive to me at least. Just today looking at a new tracked dumper. £15k and I might use it for three weeks of the year. But they are expensive to hire, and if it's wet on site then all the hire ones will be out anyway! So fuck it. With a MEWP if you own it you will start using it rather than climbing a lot of the time. Same as I use a machine rather than dig by hand, even for tiny jobs. Why have a dog and bark? The time savings all add up, and with both climbing vs MEWP and spade vs digger it's not just time, it's wear and tear on your body saved.

Another vote for cleanwell. You will want a big motor one for high volume. I’d avoid one with circuit boards such as nilfisk.

Me neither, but really, just how hard can it be?

Meh. Aeorobic/anerobic (i think), thats what I was getting at. Basically it's different underwater.

Oxygen can't get to it underwater. Different environment.

I must have been really lucky with all my rotatech chains. Never had a problem and the savings are not to be sniffed at.

^Ignore the Indian spam/witch doctor above, I'm sure he'll be gone shortly.

Not to mention ripping sawlogs down to fit through a garden chipper! ? got to love a bit of day rate.

Pretty sure no food is ever claimable but could be wrong.

They're brilliant offroad. Thick mud would slow them up, but then you should be using a track machine anyhow. The main thing to be aware of if you plan to use it for pulling stuff about is that the only place you can really fit a hitch is the front. Which means you will be in reverse. Which is painfully slow, too slow to be efficient.

It's just fucking wrong. Ex council houses in villages round here are half a million. We give out far too many handouts to peope who are quite frankly scum (your ex GF excluded)

Wont mark grass much. To turn with full load, it's easiest to stop, lift slightly (it's perfectly balanced so not hard to do), tunr it on the two front wheels then press the lever to go again.

They're a handy bit of kit but have their limitations. What are you wanting to use it for?

As butters says. 490 is a much chunkier machine and vibes are worse. 460 is the only one worth buying imho.

You still can’t dwell in them.

Oldie but a goodie!

Fucking ace. Meanwhile, there’s this thing called ‘planning permission’?

Reverse is horrifically slow. Wouldn’t recommend it as a loader type machine.

Etesia were shit for me. Everything that could fall off fell off within a year, as that’s no exaggeration. That was with a kohler engine though. best value for me would be the kaaz : lawnflite pro style with a Honda engine.

Sperian sync muffs and a Bluetooth receiver glued to the side. Dirt cheap and works great.

You’re not going to get anything that will cut and collect properly for that budget. Best bet would be an old ride on mower.

That must be on its knees with the rotator too? The grapple on its own is a lump with my 1.8t. Although well matched with rotator to the 2.7t. maybe I’ll try the rotator too on the little machine!

Corded all the way if you’ll be doing it a lot. Top end stihl electric I should think will have most power but probably a minor disappointment still compared to a petrol saw.

My local one would be Farols.... and I bet you sure as hell wouldn’t go there! ?So lucky to have dm saws within half an hour. I tried to cultivate a decent relationship with Richardson’s originally but they are a bunch of useless tossers. So yes, if I didn’t have dm saws close I’d buy online every time.

The stuff about greasing the bearing and slackening the chain is, IMHO, bollocks designed to distract from the fact that Stihl ballsed up somewhere. As mentioned, any grease will be gone within the first couple of minutes use. So no danger of overgreasing! As for slackening the chain- it'll only heat up and expand that much if you have no oil there. It's never been an issue on any saw I've used, unless the oiler was faulty or the sprocket badly worn. I always put my saws away after use, and when I come to get them again- perfect chain tension. Just as I left them!